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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] First of all, since the breakup of the Warsaw Pact there's no shortage of ex-intelligence officers willing to make claims about anything under the sun. Conservatives have a pathological fondness for being told what they want to hear - witness Chalabi as the administration's pet Iraqi. Second: [QUOTE]It was deemed better to have Arafat discredited as a homosexual.[/QUOTE]'nuff said. And I doubt "Israel's daily newsmagazine" is a hotbed of pro-Palestinian sentiment. Third, details of his exact medical status could be withheld for other reasons than the political sensitivity of the (alleged) disease affecting him. The Palestinian Authority is in a real state as it is, with no clear line of succession, and anyone makign a pronouncement could find it being used against him by one of the other contenders. And there's historical precedent for keeping his condition secret - the attempted assassination of Reagan for one: his cabinet wantonly ignored Constitutional law regarding the President's incapacitation (granted with the knowledge and assitance of the clearly-designated successor, Bush Snr.) for the sake of presenting the illusion of continuity of leadership. Then there's Brezhnev or Andropov or Chernenko, at least one of whom continued to publicly rule after his death. Therefore the complaints about these bloggers are extremely relevant. They're supportive of an administration that publically opposes homosexuality and uses that opposition as an electoral bargaining chip. As if that wasn't bad enough they're attempting to exploit another culture's dislike for that sexual orientation in order to discredit someone they perceive as an enemy while simultaneously holding up the slur as yet another reason to consider him an enemy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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